Cleveland's biggest Pride celebration returns Saturday, with more than 25,000 attendees and 12,000 marchers expected downtown.

Why it matters: Pride in the CLE is one of Ohio's largest LGBTQ+ gatherings. Organizers with the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland say this year's event arrives amid renewed political and cultural attacks on LGBTQ+ communities.

What they're saying: "Pride in the CLE is more than a celebration. It is a declaration of presence in a moment when LGBTQ+ people are being pushed to the margins through policy, rhetoric, and deliberate erasure," the Center's managing director Gulnar Feerasta wrote in the event guide.

• "Our joy is not incidental. It is how we survive and how we move forward."

Driving the news: The annual march steps off from Public Square at 11am before winding through downtown and ending at the festival grounds on Malls B and C.

• The free event includes live entertainment across multiple stages, more than 150 vendors and community organizations, food trucks, family activities and health and wellness resources.

Zoom out: The Buckeye Flame has published an annual Ohio Pride Guide listing more than 150 Pride events statewide this year. It's the largest number since the local publication began tracking them five years ago.

Between the lines: Editor Ken Schneck tells Axios that alongside major celebrations in Cleveland, Columbus and Akron, smaller first-time and rural Pride events are flourishing across Ohio.

The last word: "With over a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills currently up for consideration in the Ohio Statehouse, the need for Ohio's LGBTQ+ community to gather, be seen and be strong is as needed as it has ever been," he says.

Go deeper: Equality Ohio rolls out statewide plan amid mounting LGBTQ+ challenges

Picture this: You find the perfect house with a great yard and a welcoming front porch in an ideal neighborhood. But it's not for sale.

• The Ohio-based website Unlisted gives you a shot at that house.

Why it matters: Unlisted allows homeowners to gauge interest in their home even before they're ready to sell, and buyers can potentially get ahead of their competition by making their interest known.

How it works: The site features every property listed in the public record. Visitors can search for a house by address and place their name on a waitlist to be considered when the home hits the market.

Flashback: A few years ago, when COVID-19 made everyone restless, a neighbor's home with a pool piqued Katie Hill's interest. Hill then asked if and when the owner was thinking of selling the home.

• That interaction sparked Hill — a native of Zion, Illinois, who now lives outside Dayton — to found Unlisted last year.

Between the lines: A homeowner can search for their property, update the home's information and photos, and provide a potential timeline for when they may consider moving.

• They can also remove their home from the website completely.

Go deeper

🎥 Cuyahoga County jail officials took four years to replace more than 100 outdated surveillance cameras they knew were glitchy. (The Marshall Project)

🔔 Cleveland's 21,000-pound McGaffin Carillon — one of the nation's premier bell instruments — will offer free Friday performances high above University Circle. (The Land)

🐓 The owners of Birdietown are opening Sundaybird, a "fast-casual rotisserie chicken concept," later this summer in Lakewood. (Cleveland Scene)

🏡 Former Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski has sold his Rocky River home for $2.65 million — nearly $1 million more than what he paid in 2020. (Crain's Cleveland Business 🔐)

Federal officials were in Ohio this week to announce prosecution of a variety of alleged fraud schemes. (Axios)

Ohio is average when it comes to supporting mothers' mental health, a new report finds.

Why it matters: About one in five U.S. moms experience maternity-related mental health conditions like postpartum depression, and most don't get the treatment they need.

State of play: Ohio earned a C+ in the new report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health.

• The nation overall earned a C, with no states receiving A grades.
• States were scored across 27 measures in four domains: screening and detection, providers and treatment, policy and payment, and the new parental support category.

Zoom in: Ohio's grade has improved each year since earning a D+ in 2023. scored well for having policies, such as expanded Medicaid, in place.

• But the state is still lacking in terms of screening — meaning doctors and nurses are checking for postpartum depression — and the ratio of providers.

We saw the curtain go up on the greatest drama in the history of the world, the invasion of Hitler's Europe.

We saw it from a balcony seat high up in God's heaven, in a combat-bound Marauder piloted by a Cleveland boy, First Lieut. Howard C. Quiggle, 17118 Lipton Avenue S.E.

Cleveland journalist Roelif Loveland published one of the first accounts of the Allied invasion of Normandy Beach that many Americans read.

Flashback: Loveland was the Plain Dealer's war correspondent and often included stories of local soldiers in his dispatches.

• On June 6, 1944, he joined a fellow Clevelander on a bombing mission in support of the D-Day invasion. His eyewitness account ran the following morning on the PD's front page.

What they're saying: "Flak began to come pretty soon and tracer bullets shot in front of us like red hot rivets, but the expression on the face of the kid from Cleveland who was piloting the plane did not change in the slightest degree," Loveland wrote.

• "He followed the course to the target and then the bombardier did his stuff and the plane fairly leaped up in the air and down below flames shot up."

State of play: Loveland was one of 11 charter members of the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame when it was established in 1981.